Women and Islamic revival in a West African town / Adeline Masquelier.
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xxviii, 343 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- Gender and Islam in Dogondoutchi
- "Those who pray": religious transformations in the colonial and early postcolonial period
- Debating Muslims, disputed practices: the new public face of Islam
- When charisma comes to town: Malam Awal or the making of a modern saint
- Building a mosque in the home of a spirit: changing topographies of power and piety
- How is a girl to marry without a bed? Weddings, wealth, and women's value
- Fashioning Muslimhood: dress, modesty, and the construction of the virtuous woman
- "The fart does not light the fire": "bad" women, "true" believers, and the reconfiguration of moral domesticity.